SHOULD WIVES OBEY?

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 257, 3 November 1906, Page 11

SHOULD WIVES OBEY?

1 I J JIIIJ MAKUIA'iIi SEKVK'E OMISSION. I j Tho Uor. ."T. S. r.altnnr. Vnited Free Methodist milliliter, of Blackpool, who has I olitainort some notoriety l>y omit tins 'he i xvor't "obfy ' from n lulb j bor-.n Interviewed by n representative of the i "Tribune. l'o my mind." he said, "this I (jneFtlon <>r a wife's obedience to her hnsj hand bar. alwnys besn an importaut one. • Why should ;i br;dc prnmlSP to obey? Why j Khonlfl a huMiand expect it v The supreme I question as hpt\vpn husband and wire is, '■ r.r ought, to b< , . one of affection. It is ;is 1 True in th? family as in Ihe world tlvat "love lis conqueror.' auci. to quoto from a familiar jby run, "drives away ihe eln." " j .AMKKI'.AN hSKIUIJS lIKJ-TSAIa "Xhu American bride." writes a "Tribune"' f?o:re?ponder, t. ""long agr> objected to promlse at the altar to "obey her hustwnd. Hhe was, aud i.=. willing to "ehrrish' and 'honour' him, and to give him her "troth," hut not to •obey' him. Although the entire marriage of the Church Ot is equal in length only to a newspaper column of ordinary trpe, it Is rsroly read Tprbatlm. Frequently is omittc-U the nfldresi? at the j end of the service which embodies the views iof St. I'aul anrl i'cter on the holy state

or matrimony. The word 'obey' is not In the ronrrtage service nl th-: Koman Church. The words are: "Do t.nke thPC to my wecl-

ded Jinsbnnd, to have and to. hold, from Hits day forward, for bettor for worse, for ricJior for poorer, in sicUnese nnr! In health, fi'l death do us part.' The words arc lti lingllslii not in Latin. ■' I.KUAh lll'lMO.N. A Ipjrai authority writes witu regard to the case (juotctl:— "\Vitl> regard to tun doubt that may arise that tho omission of words may void a ceremony which is the foundation of society, a moment's reflection will stiow that it could have no snch effect. Otherwise the rnnd vrnuld be' open to fraud of nil descriptions, and Io interested assertions by married people desirous of relief from tlicir yoke liini at ilieir marriage essential words instead i>f unimportant words were omitted. Tin: law is the product of. common sense, and leutis no connteuancc to sueli a proposition. Moreover, where some really grave informality in the celebration of a marriage has taken place, power is slvcn to a Secretary of State, by an Act of l'nrllanient passed last j-ear, to make a provisional order for tbe purpose of removing the invalidity or doubt."